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Originally Posted by CanSpice
Alouette Lake is a recreational lake. It has numerous campsites along its shores, it's open for fishing and boating, and it has Golden Ears Provincial Park running up its west side. I don't see how they could turn that into a watershed.
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Didn't know that, but considering its location, I think it would be quite easy to block off from such use. With Pitt Lake and Harrison Lake such is not possible and all other lakes in the area are too small.
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Originally Posted by Olden Retreiver
The Coquitlam Reservoir can supply a lot more water. But BC Hydro will have to be $$$$ compensated.
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Interesting. Where do you base this information? The problem is also not being able to hold more water, but there ain't much extrawater on a summer like this. Sure, they could try storing more water from winter season but on a lousy winter like we just had, it might not be enough.
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Originally Posted by Olden Retreiver
Per capita water consumption has been declining for years (if not decades) and will continue to decline. Very few of those 1 million new residents will have 5000 square foot irrigated lawns.
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Good point. It is interesting how the recent lawn watering restrictions brought the daily consumption from 1.7B liters to 1.2B liters. Seems that a lot of water is spent on unnecessary things like that.
But even then 1M more people will put a lot of stress on all our infrastructure, water system included. I hope cities are prepared to invest in crucial infrastructure like this.